Psaumes 106:23

La Bible Ostervald

Et il parlait de les détruire, si Moïse, son élu, ne se fût mis à la brèche devant lui, pour détourner sa colère, afin qu'il ne les détruisît pas.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et il dit qu'il les e�t d�truits, -si Mo�se, son �lu, ne s'�tait pas tenu � la br�che devant lui, pour d�tourner sa fureur de sorte qu'il ne les d�truis�t pas.

Louis Segond (1910)
Et il parla de les exterminer; Mais Mo�se, son �lu, se tint � la br�che devant lui, Pour d�tourner sa fureur et l'emp�cher de les d�truire.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
C'est pourquoi il dit qu'il les d�truirait; mais Mo�se son �lu se tint � la br�che devant lui, pour d�tourner sa fureur, afin qu'il ne [les] d�f�t point.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he said: Exodus 32:10, Exodus 32:11, Exodus 32:32, Deuteronomy 9:13, Deuteronomy 9:14, Deuteronomy 9:19, Deuteronomy 9:25, Deuteronomy 10:10, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:14

his chosen: Psalms 105:6, Psalms 105:26, Numbers 16:5, Matthew 12:18, John 15:16, John 15:19

stood: Exodus 32:14, Jeremiah 5:1, Ezekiel 13:5, Ezekiel 22:30, James 5:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:22 - stood Numbers 11:2 - prayed Numbers 14:13 - Then the Numbers 16:41 - all the Numbers 21:7 - And Moses Numbers 25:11 - turned my Deuteronomy 5:5 - General Deuteronomy 9:18 - I fell down Deuteronomy 9:26 - prayed Job 9:33 - is there Job 35:8 - may profit Isaiah 37:4 - lift up Isaiah 59:16 - he saw Jeremiah 15:1 - stood Jeremiah 18:20 - Remember Jeremiah 30:13 - none Ezekiel 11:13 - Then Zechariah 3:1 - standing Luke 13:8 - let John 9:31 - him Galatians 3:19 - in 1 John 5:16 - he shall ask

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore he said that he would destroy them,.... He said in his word, the Targum adds; he thought within himself he would; he seemed determined in his own mind to destroy them, being provoked at their wretched forgetfulness of him, and their idolatry; he said to Moses,

let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them, Exodus 32:10. The decree indeed was not gone forth, but there was such an appearance of displeasure as if ruin was determined; and a great number was destroyed, and the whole body was threatened.

Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach; made between God and the Israelites by their sin; the allusion is either to an hedge broken down, at which a spoiler enters, unless made up, Ezekiel 22:30, or to a breach made in the wall of a besieged city, at which the besieger enters, unless stopped by the besieged, Isaiah 30:13, or to the bank or dam of a river broken down, which lets in a flood of waters, 2 Samuel 5:20. So Moses made up the hedge, and stood in the gap; he presented himself to God, rushing in like a man of war, and pouring out his wrath like an inundation of waters: this is to be understood of his fervent and importunate prayer to God on the behalf of this people, and which succeeded.

To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them;

Exodus 32:11 so the Targum,

"unless Moses his chosen had rose up and strengthened, or prevailed in his prayer before him to turn away his wrath from destroying.''

This shows the power and efficacy of prayer, and of what avail it is with God, especially the prayer of his elect; it was Moses, his chosen, that prayed, a choice servant of his; and whom he had chosen to everlasting life, as well as to be the deliverer, guide, and governor of Israel; see Luke 18:7. Herein he was an eminent type of Christ, as in other things; as Moses was a mediator between God and the people of Israel, so is Christ between God and his people. Sin is a transgression of God's law, a breaking of his statutes, which he has set as an hedge, fence, or wall, about man; and this has made a breach between God and man; which lets in the wrath of God as a flood, and justice as an armed man: and terrible it is to consider there is no standing before him, and making up the breach; but Christ has interposed as a surety, made satisfaction to law and justice, and procured peace and reconciliation; and so, by his atonement and intercession, has made up the breach, appeased the wrath of God, and turned it away, and prevented the ruin and destruction of his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore he said that he would destroy them - See Exodus 32:10-14. He threatened to destroy them, and he would have done it, if Moses had not interposed and pleaded for them. There was nothing strange or very unusual in this. Many a descending curse upon guilty people is turned away by prayer, and by human intervention. We are constantly endeavoring to turn aside evils which would come upon others - by our intervention - by labor or by prayer. Thus, when we toil to provide food for our children, or give it in charity to the poor, we are endeavoring to avert the evil of starvation which would otherwise come upon them; when we provide for them clothing, we turn away the evils of nakedness and cold; when we give them medicine we turn away the evil of long-continued disease or of death; when we rush through the flames if a house is on fire, or venture out in a rough sea in a boat, to save others from devouring flame or from a watery grave, we seek to turn aside evils which would otherwise come upon them. So when we pray for others we may turn away evils which would otherwise descend on the guilty. No one can estimate the number or the amount of evils which are thus turned away from the guilty and the suffering by intervention and intercession; no one can tell how many of the blessings of his own life he owes to the intercessions and the toils of others. “All the blessings that come upon sinners - “all” that is done to turn away deserved wrath from people - is owing to the fact that the one great Intercessor - greater than Moses - cast himself into the “breach,” and himself met and rolled back the woes which were coming upon a guilty world. “Had not Moses his chosen.” Chosen to lead and guide his people to the promised land.

Stood before him - Presented himself before him.

In the breach - literally, “in the breaking.” The allusion is to a breach made in a wall 1 Kings 11:27; Isaiah 30:13; Amos 4:3; Job 30:14, and to the force with which an army rushes through a breach that is thus made. So God seemed to be about to come forth to destroy the nation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 106:23. Moses his chosen — Or elect; (Vulgate, electus ejus; Septuagint, ὁ εκλεκτος αυτου;) the person that he had appointed for this work. It would be very difficult to show that this word in any part of the Old Testament refers to the eternal state of any man, much less to the doctrine of unconditional election and reprobation.